Shadow Constellations Training

You are welcome to join this professional training that will teach you how to skillfully bring the healing power of Shadow Constellations into your work.

We will cover the necessary theory and practice, so that you feel comfortable applying these useful tools and perspectives to the work you do with yourself and with your clients and students.

The topics in the training were selected from the core topics most relevant to any therapist or facilitator. The aim is to give you a wide range of practical tools and perspectives to enhance your personal wholeness, leading to enhanced therapeutic and facilitating skills and business growth.

Each lesson focuses on a specific topic and includes practical theory, an experiential practice, time for sharing and questions and either a Shadow Constellations group session or a demo followed by practicing in pairs and small groups.

The topics covered will include:

♦ Lesson 1 – Foundations of Shadow Work
Introducing C.G. Jung, the “father” of modern Shadow Work, understanding the essence of the Shadow and how it affects all relaltionships and every meaningful aspect of our personal and professional lives. We will start our journey into the Shadow realms, identifying Shadows by their projection and understanding the main archetypes, background and contexts of Shadow Constellations.

♦ Lesson 2 – Foundations of Family Constellations and Ancestral Healing
Introducing Bert Hellinger, founder of Family Constellations, the Orders of Love, intergenerational healing, phenomenology and a systemic approach which form an important part of Shadow Constellations.

♦ Lesson 3 & 4 – Shadows in the clinic (A double lesson)
Whose Shadows affect our relationships with our clients and students? Both theirs and ours.
In this day we will learn a novel way of viewing and understanding client-practitioner relationships from a systemic & Shadow perspective.
We will learn at the 6 categories of Shadow triggering, a Shadow Constellations process to help us turn triggering into a deep healing Shadow integration, identify the many ways that Shadows show themselves and affect our delicate and multi-layered relationships with our clients and students.

♦ Lesson 5 – Cultural and collective Shadows
These are Shadows that operate on the level of the collective and the culture. They lie below our individual and family Shadows, affecting us in ways are harder to identify from within the culture. We will learn to identify their presence and how to relate and work with our cultural history in order to gain clarity and distinction, without losing our sense of belonging to it.

♦ Lesson 6 – Golden Shadows & our business success
Golden Shadows what we consider good or even great that we have disconnected from.
They are related to admiration, envy and jealousy. They also play a major role in attraction, falling in love and in romantic/erotic transference and countertransference.
Understanding and integrating with our Golden Shadows makes us distinctly safer space holders at the same time as it makes us more whole, expansive and rich.

♦ Lesson 7 – Shadows of helplessness and the Drama/Trauma triangle
Our Shadows of helplessness are what makes us fall over and over again into the Drama/Trauma Triangle – To repeatedly and unconsciously be captured by the Savior, Victim, Perpetrator (and also the silent accomplice) roles.

Our own disowned helplessness is what makes us give up on a client because we can’t help them when we actually can, or try to change them and take them out of their helplessness (to name just two of the common dynamics which eventually cause great damage).
In this lesson We will look at a variety of approaches and practical ways to address helplessness in ourselves and our clients.

♦ Lesson 8 – Shadows of aggression and vulnerability
Here we will learn to be more in touch with holding power and taking space, with balancing our vulnerability and aggression so that they become supports rather than a barrier to our development and realization in the world.
This work increases our tolerance for clients and dynamics which we feel are too vulnerable or too aggressive which is often much needed when working with traumatized clients and especially clients suffering from complex trauma.

♦ Lesson 9 – Shadows of sexuality and safe work with sexual trauma in the field
In this lesson we will explore different ways of identifying various aspects of sexuality that went into the Shadow, personally and culturally. We will learn how to sense the presence of sexual trauma in the field and develop a higher sensitivity in working with it.
We will learn to integrate with our own Sexuality in the Shadow in order to enhance safety and to manage what may triggers us due to our personal and family sexual history.